1. |
Drive all Night
04:15
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I’ve been driving all night
Just to be with you
If only for a few hours
Before we have to go
I’m thinking of your face
My love
Here in the middle
Of nowhere
Driving on empty
This old car pulling me along
Further into the darkness
With only the stars above
And the dark shadows
Around me
Suggesting, that
They’re something else
But ain’t no time to swerve
From these ghosts
When I gotta’
Get to you
So baby, I’m driving all night
Just to be with you
If only for a few hours
Before we have to go
Ain’t no gas in sight
But I’ve gotta’ keep going
Running on faith
That we’re going to make it
Even when it seems so dark
And we’re all alone
And the world looks
So sinister
But baby, I’ve been driving all night
Just to be with you
If only for a few hours
Before we have to go
And I’ll drive all night
Just to be with you
If only for a few hours
Before we have to go
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2. |
Cheap Rent
04:13
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I’m just looking for a place
That has cheap rent
And where I can
Hang up my guitar
On a nail in the wall
Maybe get me a dog
Have a little land
And lots of space
For me and you
Don’t need nothing fancy
No great big mansion
Or brand new car
Just keep it simple
Pull down that guitar
Some nights
Play you a song
So I can watch you dance
Until it’s time
To turn off the lights
Hang up my guitar
On a nail in the wall
In this place
With cheap rent
Lots of space
For me and you
Don’t need nothing fancy
No great big mansion
Or brand new car
Just keep it simple
A little place
For me and you
Away from it all
Yeah, I’m just looking for that place
That has cheap rent
Where I can
Hang up my guitar
And hide away
With you
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3. |
Could Be Anyone
04:00
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If I could be anyone
In this whole wide world
I’d still, just
Have to be myself
Owning up, to all my own mistakes
And bad luck and the pain
All the things
That have made me, me
And you, the one
That I would find
To be with, and
Who feels right for me
So I can’t let go
Of all the good times
That we’ve found
While still, living through
All our own struggles
And the things we’ve done wrong
And the things we’ve done right
For each other
When we first met
I thought about
All the people, that
Had done me wrong
Didn’t know
If you would be, one more
in this long line
But hadda’ take that risk
But trust can be such a difficult thing
For me to give
To anyone
But playing it safe
Would have been
The biggest mistake
I had ever made
In my whole life
So I’m holding on
To all the good times
That we’ve found together
While still living through
All our own struggles
And the things we’ve done wrong
And the things we’ve done right
For each other
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4. |
Enough to Keep Going
04:05
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The tax man’s
Robbin’ me blind, and
Creditors comin’ round
To get the money
I don’t have
But I still
Have enough
To keep me going
Gas in my car
Stayin’ one step ahead
Of all the troubles
Been followin’ me
My whole life
Driving down this road
With the earth
Spinning round
Under my tires, and
Me lookin’ out
At the horizon
And feelin’ ok
Yeah, I got enough
To keep me going
Gas in my car
Stayin’ one step ahead
Of all the people
Who tried to
Bring me down
And the past
I wish
I could out run
But baby
I’m still runnin’
And lookin’ out
For whatever
This old world
Has to offer
Cuz’ i got enough
To keep me going
Gas in my car
Stayin’ one step ahead
Yeah, I got enough
To keep me going
Gas in my car
Stayin’ one step ahead
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5. |
Tenuous Truth
03:52
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After the rains
Wash away
All the dirt
And sadness
The beautiful struggles
Are what is left
Exposed
For us to see
Those tenuous truths
Trees clinging
To the earth
As they reach
For the sky
While white crosses
Stand vigilant
At the intersections
Of our lives
And blooming flowers
Spread life, across the land
With their beauty
Reminding us
As we pass
That we should never
Take for granted
That any link
In this chain
In our fragile existence
Can be broken
And any one of our
Tenuous truths
Can come unraveled
At anytime
So we need to see
As many
Blooming flowers
As we can
To remind us
That we should never
Take anything
For granted
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6. |
Ain't No Guarantees
03:40
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There ain’t nothing in this whole wide world
Ever guaranteed
How we enter
How we leave
All the crap that gets thrown
At us in between
So, gotta hold on
To everything good
We stumble into
By luck or design
The people that give us love
Or make us laugh
Think about
All the things
That are better
than the everyday
Struggles and troubles
We endure
Cuz ain’t nothing in this whole wide world
Ever guaranteed
Gotta hold on
To everything good
We stumble into
By luck or design
The people who give us love
make us laugh
Or make us think
About all the things
That are better
than the everyday
Struggles and troubles
We endure
No, there ain’t nothing in this world
Ever guaranteed
So we have to hold on
To everything good
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7. |
Going Sober
06:35
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I went sober
And you didn’t
but I can’t judge you for it, because
We all have to pass our time, somehow
Here on earth
In whatever way
We might choose
Awake or wasted
In love or alone
Fighting our demons
Or creating new ones
That we think we can manage
I don’t know what that buys you
And I’ve certainly squandered
All my own potential
The same as you
In spite of the raving dreams
We’d bluster out
While stumbling drunk
Down dark city streets
Between the bars
And liquor stores
And the adventures
On the edge of sanity
Trying to get away
From this messed up world
By being more messed up
Ourselves inside, until
I went sober
And you didn’t
But I can’t judge you
We all have to pass our time, somehow
I have The Book of Fools
You gave me once
With the inscription
Fools are we all
And fools we’ll always be
But somehow, I thought
We’d still be friends
Even if I was sober
But when I got on that plane
And left you in Amsterdam
And said goodbye
I didn’t know what I would find
I needed to follow
My own roads
Away from the past
And all those struggles
But I still don’t know
What I was hoping for
Because I never found it
And maybe that’s why
We can’t carry
That much baggage
When we have to go
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8. |
Never Been to Oklahoma
04:08
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I’ve never been to Oklahoma
But I’d sure like to go, with you sometime
Drive beneath, those open skies
across the endless plains
Just like the Becher’s
Stopping at every
Abandoned grain elevator
Just to hear the wind
Whooshing across the fields
Into every broken wall
New place to hide
Where we could kiss
Don’t know a soul
Within 500 miles
We’d simply be lost
And running
Down that lonesome road
Like we knew every crack
In every white line
Along the edge, of every highway
Been down them all before
All the same roads
Leading us away, from everything
We’ve ever known
Well baby, I’ve never been to Oklahoma
But I’d sure like to go, with you sometime
Drive beneath, those open skies
across the endless plains
Until we hit the mountains
And found a place to rest
In the shade
Beneath a gnarled tree
Where we could look back
On all the emptiness
We’ve left behind
And enjoy the beauty of the day
So baby, I’ve never been to Oklahoma
And I’d sure like to go, with you sometime
Drive beneath, those wide open skies
Across the endless plains
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9. |
Worse Than Whiskey
03:59
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There’s nothing worse than whiskey
Other than being sober
Without you baby
Takes this burn
To kill these feelings
Of being alone
With these hard to heal wounds
And scars on scars
And having to face
All the mistakes
That I've made
That led to losing you
Here at the end
Of this dead end road
Sitting in my truck
With a pint of jack
Between my legs
And looking over the edge
Off this steep cliff
Where I've found myself
Drinking and trying to face
Everything, I’ve done wrong
Over my whole life
And wondering why
It had to be that way
With you
When I wanted everything
To all work
Be someone
Other than who I am
But in the end
It all fell apart
And all I could be was me
So now
There’s nothing worse than whiskey
Other than being sober
Without you here, baby
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10. |
So Far Away
03:48
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Oh baby, you seem
So far away
When you're lost in grief
From the worries
And the darkness
That crashes down
And blocks out
All the memories we’ve shared
The things that changed our world
And the way everything became new
After we pushed
All that ugliness aside
With the politics
And everything else
That is wrong
With this whole damn place
What has always been wrong
Only now, hiding
Beneath other faces
And speaking, in other voices
All the things that first kiss
Let us ignore
As my nervous feet
Shifted on that loose gravel
And I pulled you close
And risked
Giving you that bold kiss
That took you by surprise
So baby, don’t go that far away now
When the blackness
Crashes down
And you're lost in grief
Because I’m still holding on
To that first time, and remembering
Exactly where it happened
And where my feet were planted on this earth
But I'm still here, holding you close
As tight as I can
While you fight back
Those dark worries
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Mark Hahn Tucson, Arizona
Tucson artist and writer, Mark Hahn, grew up in Detroit MI, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and has traveled, lived and worked in many major cities across Europe and the United States. He has now settled in Tucson and spends his time focusing on varied creative projects while exploring the Sonoran Desert and the broken down mining towns that are scattered around the Southern AZ landscape. ... more
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